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Years after hackers stole consumers’ identity info from mortgage brokers, victim impact continues – FBI

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Dissent

The FBI has an update on a hacking case previously reported on this site: A recently closed California hacking and identity theft case sadly illustrates the misery that can be visited on unsuspecting victims when their personal information is compromised. Between 2011 and 2014, four U.S. citizens who resided in San Diego—but carried out their…

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Minneapolis FBI agent charged with leaking classified information to reporter

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Dissent

Mukhtar M. Ibrahim reports: A Minneapolis FBI agent who started his career with the agency as an intern in 2000 has been charged with leaking classified information to the news website The Intercept. Terry James Albury’s attorneys, JaneAnne Murray and Joshua Dratel, said in a statement that their client, the only African-American FBI field agent…

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Oregon Dept. of Revenue detects and responds to employee uploading records to personal cloud storage

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Dissent

March 23, 2018. Salem, OR—The Oregon Department of Revenue has detected a security incident that involved approximately 36,000 individuals with records at the department. The facts of the incident are summarized below, along with protective measures the department has taken since discovering the incident. The potentially impacted information from the files included data such as…

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Oklahoma man pleads guilty to using stolen medical records for identity theft

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Dissent

KXII reports: One of two men suspected of of using stolen medical records to commit identity theft has pleaded guilty in federal court. 34-year-old Robert Bond of Thackerville pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Read more on KXII. The report doesn’t indicate from where the medical records were stolen,…

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‘Lizard Squad’ hacker-for-hire Zachary Buchta sentenced to three months in prison plus $350,000 restitution for online attacks

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Dissent

Jason Meisner reports: Maryland man sobbed in court Tuesday as a federal judge sentenced him to three months in prison for his role in a “hacker-for-hire” service that shut down company websites and harassed thousands of unsuspecting people around the world. […] Before he was sentenced, Buchta read a brief statement to the court apologizing…

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More details emerge on The MENTOR Network breach

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Dissent

On March 21, National Mentor Healthcare, doing business as Georgia MENTOR, announced that they were notifying patients of a data breach. A disk with protected health information mailed to them by a software provider was lost in the mail, they explained. They had reportedly discovered the loss on December 21. They did not disclose when…

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